Verse 125: Late at Night (3)
"A lie is a weapon and a shield." Kneeling in front of the ritual circle, the faceless chaos whispered.
In front of him, the bloods seemed to be alive, slowly but surely turning themselves into part of the summoning array.
"Deception is art, like a picture scroll." Faceless Chaos continued his whispers.
The innocent manipulators were hung upside down from the ceiling with bewildered faces, blood burrowing out of their flawless bodies and dripping to the ground.
An explosion was heard at the far end of the tunnel, and the faceless chaos listened as he continued to whisper, "Stratagem is a trap, but also a legion. ”
With his words, the fluctuations of psionic energy began to climb uncontrollably.
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"Psionic energy detected! Seongdong District! "The mages of the Mage Tower confirmed the location as soon as possible, but it was already like hell at this time, and the Chaos Cultists had turned the entire eastern part of the city into a dead place.
The messenger was sent out and began to inform the churches.
A team of mages and apprentices began to lift off and leave the city, and the remaining mages activated the ancient defensive circle - the city would be wrapped in a shield and become a lonely city.
Or wait for the army to smash open the shield and fight the chaos inside to the death.
Either wait for the living inside to kill the chaos and use their heads as sacrifices to close the circle.
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"I can't go any further." Casaman stopped.
"Why, the church is ahead." Marin asked curiously.
"Because I can't prove my identity, I'm a lonely ghost now, and if I enter the church, I'm bound to be locked up...... I don't want to wait to die, and if Chaos can't be destroyed, I'd rather die in this city than helplessly in prison. After Casaman finished speaking, he turned his head to look at Marin: "If you don't agree with me, you can shoot." ”
Marin, who was holding the gun, finally lowered the muzzle: "You go." ”
"Thank you." Casaman finished and turned to leave.
Marin hurried back to the church and met Bishop Constance, only to know that his mentor had led the team into the underground tunnel.
"Old Hoffman said, let you follow me, we must go to the east of the city now." The old man said as he looked at Marin: "What about the halfling Liukin's team." ”
"They stayed in the toxin outbreak area, saying they wanted to save people, Your Excellency, the Church of Fortune has completely degenerated, and there is chaos everywhere." Marin said.
Constance paused for a moment: "Church of Wealth? ”
"Yes, you see." Marin pulled out an insignia from his pocket, which Casaman had ripped from the gnome's neck and handed it to him.
“…… What the hell is the emblem of the just church! ”
"The situation is ......"
Marin said everything, and Bishop Constance took a deep breath: "Okay, let's go to the Church of the God of Wealth first." ”
The decision was made, and the Church's troops immediately began to move, leaving behind the troops to protect the Church's sanctuary, and Constance led his men to the Church of the God of Wealth.
Marin followed the group.
"You don't need it, boy." Constance said.
"But Your Excellency, there is no purgatory in the world, if you want to live, you must learn to kill something." Marin said as he walked to the front of the line: "I'll lead the way." ”
"Your Excellency......" The halfling who was the pathfinder glanced at Constance, and after receiving his eye confirmation, the halfling followed Marin in silence.
From the Church of the Goddess of Harvest to the Church of the God of Wealth, there are only a few alleys and avenues to cross, Marin chooses the main street, and the team is divided into two teams and marches on both sides of the street.
The route was full of fleeing civilians, and Constance instructed them to take refuge in the Church.
Marin is supportive of this, not because of kindness, but because the church has a perfect method of identifying chaos, and anyone who wants to blend in with chaos will only be killed at the door of the church.
"In front of it is the sanctuary of the Church of the God of Wealth, and I can already feel the energy of chaos." The halfling pulled down the goggles on his forehead and glanced at them, then looked at Marin: "I personally suggest that you best give yourself a little protection. ”
Marin pulled down his goggles and put the breath filter over his face.
The team begins to engage Chaos.
These Chaos have completely lost their human form and move like beasts, and while sadly, their shells are unexpectedly tough, and Marlin even needs two No. 8 single-headed bullets to snap open the skulls of these Chaos and destroy them once and for all - Chaos does not die in the main plane, and killing them in the main plane will only drive them back into subspace.
"It's Nurgle's means." The halfling pulled over a corpse, and he checked the corpse's mouth: "Nurgle! He turned and shouted, "Watch out for the infection!" ”
Marin shot Chaos with the Church members as he advanced, and the teams on both sides of the street could shoot Chaos on the opposing side, so he pushed closer quickly.
Coming to the door of the church, Marin saw a church member standing there, and he looked at Marin with godless eyes: "Will you come in and rest?" ”
"He's finished, the infection of chaos has turned him into a fool, but fortunately he is a fool." The halfling walked past the member's state and then raised his gun to shoot him.
Marin kicked the door open, and the big man behind him immediately dragged him away, while the church members at the gates on either side walked in with guns raised.
Marin followed, corpses and stumps everywhere, Constance walked in, the old man glanced at the scene, and confirmed the identity of the deceased: "It's an innocent person who has not been converted." After saying that, he kicked the little head at his feet, and the child who was taken into the church by his father for refuge would never understand that this choice of his parents completely ruined each other's lives.
Marin looked at the head: "Your Excellency." ”
"If you pick up this head, you can see its mutated teeth, children have very low resistance to Chaos, they are eaten only because Chaos likes tender meat, Chaos has no friendship with each other, they are natural enemies of anything that moves, even if it is the same kind." After Bishop Constance finished speaking, he stood in front of the door of the inner hall, he kicked the door open, and then stood there: "Cohen! Look at your pathetic look! ”
Marin walked behind him and saw the huge lump of flesh in the center of the church's pulpit.
The latter wailed, completely out of his senses.
"See, Marin, this is the eternal life of a loving father, and this old friend of mine has attained the eternal life he has always dreamed of, at the cost of not being able to move with reason...... If you have seen such eternal life, will you still want it? Constance turned around with a lamented sigh, and before that, the Molotov cocktail he lit in his hand smashed into the massive piece of flesh.
Divine fuel ignited the massive lump of flesh.
Marin shook his head: "Such an eternal life is better than a happy death, Your Excellency." ”
"Yes, a lot of times, death is a great horror, but sometimes, death is a way to find liberation." After His Excellency Constance finished speaking, he sighed.
Marin knew what he wanted to say, and understood what he meant.
"Everybody, there's a price to pay for his own choices." Following the old man out of the Church of the God of Wealth, Marin replied softly.
"Yes, they gave everything they had to live forever...... At the expense. Bishop Constance smiled a little: "Judging by the results, they have nothing and everything. ”